Peter Orszag, the runs the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration, is shown here on Youtube urging everyone in his department and throughout the nation to exercise (the Pedometer Challenge) and eat healthy food. He’s even got a bowl of apples on his desk, just like the president has in the Oval [...]
Archive for October, 2009
OMB Chief Urges Healthy Lifestyle
Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2009 |
Our Misplaced Faith in Medical Technology
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2009 |
The Hastings Center is hosting a series of expert commentaries on health and health care reform. This one by Merrill Goozner, whose GoozNews on Health blog I check often, caught my eye. … half of the annual increase in the cost of our increasingly unaffordable health care system can be attributed to the proliferation of newer [...]
Medicines Pollute Water Supplies
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2009 |
This is the water we drink and bathe in. While it seems hard to believe that pharmaceutical drugs, including hormones, can be accumulating in sufficient quantities to cause animal and human illness, evidence is accumulating that this is indeed the case. It’s important to remember that our bodies are responsive to very minute amounts of [...]
Family Physicians Group Gains “Strong Six Figures” Sponsor — Coca-Cola
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2009 |
Corporate sponsorships of health enterprises (or heavy dependence on corporate advertising) always raise concerns about overt or subtle effects on decision-making within the health group. Conflict-of-interest runs along a graduated scale, from severe and covert on one end to full transparency on the other. I’ll let readers reach their own conclusions about whether the American [...]
More High Schools Banning Soda and Other Junk Food
Posted in Uncategorized on October 6, 2009 |
It’s always nice to read something positive in the morning. This trend is significant, but the state where I live, Kansas, isn’t yet on board yet. In 2008, 63% of high schools surveyed by CDC didn’t sell soda or sweetened fruit drinks, up from 38% two years earlier. About 64% don’t sell candy or salty [...]
If You Still Eat Hamburgers, You Might Want to Read This
Posted in Uncategorized on October 3, 2009 |
From the New York Times, a truly chilling article about a woman paralyzed with e. coli from a burger. The reporter digs deep, unearthing a profoundly disturbing story of non-regulation that amounts to a public safety roulette wheel. Meat companies and grocers have been barred from selling ground beef tainted by the virulent strain of [...]
Chiropractors Again Classified as Physicians in Federal Blue Cross-Blue Shield Plan
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2009 |
This is a potentially very important piece of news for chiropractors and chiropractic students. ACA has successfully concluded year-long negotiations with Blue Cross-Blue Shield to restore “physician” status for chiropractors. This has potentially wide-ranging ramifications in national health reform. I’m copying the entire ACA press release below: ACA’s Efforts to Restore DC Physician Status in [...]
Superb Washington Post Article by Dr. James Gordon
Posted in Uncategorized on October 1, 2009 |
Health Insights Today board member, Dr. James Gordon, has an excellent article in the Washington Post about coping with uncertainty. I have been practicing psychiatry for 40 years, but I’ve never seen this much stress and worry about economic well-being and the future. There is a sense that the ground is no longer solid, that [...]
